• Search ongoing for youth suspect

A couple and another suspect who were arrested over the death of a 16-year-old girl in Kalutara have been ordered to be remanded in custody until 15 May, after being produced before the Kalutara Magistrate’s Court.

The naked body of a schoolgirl who had died after falling from the third floor of a five-storey building where rooms are rented, and which is located next to the railway line in the Kalutara Town, was discovered on 6 May, according to some information received by the Police.

The deceased girl was identified to be a resident of the Nagoda area in Kalutara, and the body had been identified by the parents of the deceased.

Information has been revealed that the girl in question had come to the place of the incident with another young couple and a young boy, rented two rooms on the third floor and stayed there. However, an employee of the hotel had witnessed that all four were drinking alcohol in one room, although they had rented two rooms in the hotel. Later, the young couple had left the hotel, and the hotel employees had witnessed the other young boy leaving the hotel in a panic after about 20 minutes. A person, who came to the hotel later on, had informed the hotel staff that a woman was lying naked on the railway track near the hotel.

The Police officers who were notified regarding the matter checked on the girl in question, whereupon it had been revealed that she had already died.

Earlier, the young couple who had arrived at the hotel along with the deceased girl had surrendered to the Police, and another suspect was arrested on 7 May on suspicion of the death of the girl in question. He has been identified to be the driver of the car in which the group including the deceased girl had arrived at the said hotel.

Meanwhile, probes are underway in search of the young boy who was with the victim at the time of the incident, the Police said.

Police have uncovered that the suspect in question has married two women and the Police have recorded statements from the woman he had married for the second time.